On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Scott Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu> wrote: > A colleague has a newly built 64-bit CentOS 5.0 system that, through yum > updates, has become CentOS 5.2. VMWare Workstation and Player work fine > for my account on it. But a recent configuration of something under their > account has produced: > > vmplayer > GTK Accessibility Module initialized > /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libspi.so.0: > undefined symbol: atk_hyperlink_impl_get_type > > The same error (I think) comes up if I try to invoke vmware (Workstation). > > As a reminder, if I su - <my account> and run vmplayer, it works. > > I typed env > env.txt for both accounts, diff'd them, and didn't see > anything obvious to my eyes. > > I did the same for set > set.txt. Again, nothing obvious. I rebooted the > system. Same problem. > > What is the most likely cause under their account if, on the same system, it > works fine for me? > It looks like a permissions problem if it works for root (always) and not for a non-root user. If it's not too much trouble, I would uninstall and reinstall both, and make sure your root permissions are set properly (002, IIRC). HTH mhr